Witnessing Climate Change

Climate change is too often discussed in the abstract – in terms of graphs, statistics and future projections. 

For an evening at the Athenaeum Theatre in March, we’ll present people who are already seeing, and living, the impact. 

They’ll share their stories, visions and ideas for the future.

Read the Wheeler Centre details - “Witnessing Climate Change.”

What’s really warming the world

Check out the graphs published by Bloomberg Businessweek - “What’s really warming the world.”

Artist Turns Climate Data into Paintings

Jill Pelto's art.

Most scientists communicate data through reports, charts, and graphs. But Jill Pelto also uses paint and canvas.

Pelto is a graduate student at the University of Maine. She grew up immersed in nature and always loved to make art. So when she began studying earth sciences, she started looking for ways to unite her two passions.

Pelto: “I thought, I know I have to make environmental art and I have to make art that is sending a message to more people.”

Though early in her research career, Pelto has already worked in the Falkland Islands, the dry valleys of Antarctica, and the mountain glaciers of Washington.

Read the Yale Climate Connections story - “Artist Turns Climate Data into Paintings.”

The common rhetorical escape - 'I'm not a scientist'

-      Robert McLean.

David Spratt is he co-author
of Climate Code Red.

“I’m not a scientist” is the common rhetorical escape for most with influence, but who deny climate change.

Not many of us, of course, are scientists with the qualifications to make informed comment about climate change, but all of us do have a sense of what is right and wrong, most of us can understand basic graphs and charts and most of us seem to instinctively know when something is going astray.

Climate change is damnably difficult to pin down in detail, but strikingly simple when considered broadly and applied to the human experiment.

David Spratt, the co-author of Climate Code Red, understands the scientific realities of climate change, but takes his readers on an understandable journey and has warned that “Two degrees of warming closer than you may think”.

Yes, I’m not a scientist, but it is clear to me that climate change is happening and bringing with it significant difficulties.